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Auction 35 · Lot 265
Marriage Contract for the groom “Harav Ha-Kollel Yitzchak b. Moshe Uziel”
- Estimate
- $1,200–$1,800
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(KETHUBAH).
Place
Jerusalem
Publication
1845
Description
Sephardic script within decorative floral border. Signed by the Dayanim of Jerusalem Yitzchak Covo, Binyamin Mordecai Navon
summary
The signatories were important Sephardic Rabbis. Covo was appointed Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem following the death of R. Chaim Abraham Gaguine in 1848. He was actually older than Gaguine and thus signed before him on certain documents cited by Frumkin (including the memorandum sent by the Jerusalem community to Sir Moses Montefiore in 1839). Luncz entitled him as “Saba Kadisha, Abir ha-Ro’im, she-ein lanu temuratho.”(The Senior, Holy Sage, the Chief Shepherd, who Cannot be Replaced). Navon was a respected kabbalist who published Nechpah ba-Kesef, composed by his grandfather R. Yonah Navon. See A. L. Frumkin, Toldoth Chachmei Yerushalayim, Part III, pp. 278-79, 292-93